NAME
PDF::Create - create PDF files
DESCRIPTION
PDF::Create allows you to create PDF documents using a large number of primitives
and emit the result as a PDF file/stream.PDF stands for Portable Document Format.
Documents can have several pages, a table of content, an information section and
many other PDF elements. More functionnalities will be added as needs arise.
Documents are constructed on the fly so the memory footprint is not tied to the
size of the pages but only to their number.
It's main advantage over the other PDF modules is that it doesn't depend on other
modules and is perl only (no compiler needed).
If you want a quick and dirty way of creating pdf's, PDF::Create is for you. If
you need a complete Framework to create complex PDF stuff, you better dive into
the PDF::API2 based modules.
More information about this module is included in this package.
SYNOPSIS
use strict; use warnings;
use PDF::Create;
my $pdf = PDF::Create->new(
'filename' => 'sample.pdf',
'Author' => 'John Doe',
'Title' => 'Sample PDF',
'CreationDate' => [ localtime ]
);
# add a A4 sized page
my $a4 = $pdf->new_page('MediaBox' => $pdf->get_page_size('A4'));
# Add a page which inherits its attributes from $a4
my $page = $a4->new_page;
# Prepare a font
my $f1 = $pdf->font('BaseFont' => 'Helvetica');
# Prepare a Table of Content
my $toc = $pdf->new_outline('Title' => 'Title Page', 'Destination' => $page);
# Write some text
$page->stringc($f1, 40, 306, 426, "PDF::Create");
$page->stringc($f1, 20, 306, 396, "version $PDF::Create::VERSION");
$page->stringc($f1, 20, 306, 300, 'by John Doe ');
# Add another page
my $page2 = $a4->new_page;
# Draw some lines
$page2->line(0, 0, 612, 792);
$page2->line(0, 792, 612, 0);
$toc->new_outline('Title' => 'Second Page', 'Destination' => $page2);
# Close the file and write the PDF
$pdf->close;
INSTALLATION
Quick answer:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install PDF::Create'
Long answer:
To install manually, cd to the directory containing the unpacked distribution and
do one of the following:
a) Create a makefile by running Makefile.PL using the perl program into whose
library you want to install and then run make three times:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
b) To install into a private library, for example your home directory:
perl Makefile.PL INSTALLSITELIB=$HOME/lib INSTALLMAN3DIR=$HOME/man
make
make test
make pure_install
AUTHORS
- Fabien Tassin
Original Author of PDF::Create
- Markus Baertschi, markus@markus.org
I have taken over maintenence of PDF::Create as Fabien has disappeared and did
no longer maintain it in the last years. The last version of PDF::Create from
Fabien is 0.06. All newer versions have been modified by me. I maintain the
PDF::Create in git. You can access the repository directly at http://github.com/markusb/pdf-create.